HANS NIELSEN HAUGE
21. April 2008 Norwegian Theatre Academy, Fredrikstad, Norway
Interactive performance-installation by: Stine Aas Grumheden, Ivar Furre Aam, Hanna Barfod & Susanne Irene Fjørtoft, tutored by Sven Erga.
A performance in which it is the audience who decide for how long it will last. A possibility for them to interact with the performers and play with the dramaturgy. The only catch is that to end the performance the audience will have to work together as a group...
Description
The audience (max 6 per showing) was invited into the blackbox and guided up onto a podium covered with rugged sea-salt. Under the platform were contact microphones connected to a computer that would trigger sound-files when the noise of the audience stepping in the salt would reach a certain level.
On stage there was two performers. One slowly and clearly said the prayer ‘Fader Vår’ while the other was sweeping salt from the floor with a broom and a dust-bin. But every time the audience triggered a sound-file the preacher would either skip a few sentences back or start over again. The other would throw the salt back down on the floor and begin over.
The performance lasted untill the preacher managed to finish his prayer, and the sweeper had collected all the salt from the floor.
Interactive performance-installation by: Stine Aas Grumheden, Ivar Furre Aam, Hanna Barfod & Susanne Irene Fjørtoft, tutored by Sven Erga.
A performance in which it is the audience who decide for how long it will last. A possibility for them to interact with the performers and play with the dramaturgy. The only catch is that to end the performance the audience will have to work together as a group...
Description
The audience (max 6 per showing) was invited into the blackbox and guided up onto a podium covered with rugged sea-salt. Under the platform were contact microphones connected to a computer that would trigger sound-files when the noise of the audience stepping in the salt would reach a certain level.
On stage there was two performers. One slowly and clearly said the prayer ‘Fader Vår’ while the other was sweeping salt from the floor with a broom and a dust-bin. But every time the audience triggered a sound-file the preacher would either skip a few sentences back or start over again. The other would throw the salt back down on the floor and begin over.
The performance lasted untill the preacher managed to finish his prayer, and the sweeper had collected all the salt from the floor.